Node HBase is a Node.JS client for the Apache HBase database. It use the Rest
API (Stargate) to communicate with HBase. Currently, all the API is implemented
and the data exchange format is JSON (but protocol buffer could follow).

Apache HBase is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. It describes itself as the Hadoop
database optimized for random, realtime read/write access to big data. It is an
open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google
Bigtable.